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MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust
Article URL: https://martypc.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405816 Points: 154 # Comments: 55
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The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)
Article URL: https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405331 Points: 136 # Comments: 68
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Web APIs and Batch Jobs Communicate Failure Differently
Long Story Short Web APIs can communicate failure through HTTP status codes, but batch jobs need to terminate in a way that allows the execution environment to recognize that the process has failed. In this case, I changed the error handling to throw an exception. This caused failed Lambda invocations to be reflected in the CloudWatch Errors metric, which allowed the alarm to trigger. Error handling does not end inside the application. We also need to think about whether failures can be corre
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Superpowers for Coding Agents: Turn Vague Requests Into Tested Changes
The fastest way for an AI coding agent to create expensive work is to start coding too soon. A request arrives, the agent infers the missing requirements, selects an architecture, edits several files, and produces a plausible patch. The patch may compile. It may even pass a narrow test. But it can still solve the wrong problem. Superpowers is a methodology and a set of composable skills intended to change that default. Rather than treating code generation as the first step, it asks the agent to
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🔒 Lock Folder Util — The Mutex Your Agent Swarm Desperately Needs
Twelve Agents. One Resource. Zero Supervision. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? You know that moment when you finally parallelise your agent fleet and watch with pride as twelve subagents sprint off to do the work of a whole team... straight into the same shared resource. Maybe it is the one licensed tool seat. Maybe it is the office coffee machine you told everyone could "handle concurrent requests". Maybe you set a dozen agents loose to find the funniest cat picture on the internet, and they al
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Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Path
Hello World 🖖. I will be starting a series journaling my learning journey towards acquiring my Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certificate. Let's get into it. A Cloud Engineer plans, configures, sets up, and deploys cloud solutions. The Associate Cloud Engineer Certification provides the practical skills required for this role, preparing you to successfully manage enterprise solutions on Google Cloud. In order for the learning to be more engaging, retained, and shareable, Google was intuitive e
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The People Building AI Are the Worst at Predicting It
I graded 18 dated AI predictions from the last two years against what actually happened. The scoreboard is brutal, and the one guy who scored well got nothing for it. In March 2025, Dario Amodei told the Council on Foreign Relations that AI would be writing 90% of code within three to six months, and essentially all of it within twelve. That twelve-month deadline passed in March. Almost nobody went back to check. That is the strange etiquette of AI forecasting. The predictions are loud, dated, a
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